Wap Spot spent a little over 3 months in Houston, Texas, in
training with JP Giacomini. These photos were taken after just 10 weeks!

(Unfortunately, I took the photos, and most of them were so dark
you could hardly see Spotty!

Wap Spot ridden by JP Giacomini

February, 2002

These photos were also taken in Houston, in February, 2002.
here he is being ridden by "his God Mother", Margaret Matthews, former MFH of
the Tanheath Hunt, Mass.

FULL SIBLINGS

Waps Spot of Gold, (Arnold), 2000 gelding, photos at 3 years
old.

Owner: Patti Pierce, South Carolina

Waps Spot Lass, 1999 filly, photo on left at 6 months old

Owner: Liz Teahen, Michigan

3 years old, Equine AffaireColumbus, Ohio,
April, 2001

3 1/2 years old, Equine Affaire,
W. Springfield, mass. November, 2001

Yearling 12 months

Wap Spot, better known as "Spotty", is a
breath taking mover. In all the years of breeding Appaloosas sport horses,
I have never seen such extravagant movement. He naturally carries himself
in a frame, impulsion coming from his powerful hind quarters, through to his
elastic shoulders. Over a course of 5 cavalletti, I have
increased the distance to 8' between each rail (with a rider) and with his
tremendous reach he doesn't miss a beat.

Spotty's attitude in hand and while being
ridden in the company of other horses is exceptional. At home, he is
stalled between Reflection (a stallion) and Masquerade (a filly). We take
him to the Equine Affaires and World Expos, so people can have the opportunity
to meet him in person. While in the Appaloosa Horse Club booth at the
Equine Affaire, Mass. in November 2001, he discovered that by turning and
twisting, he could get people to scratch all the correct places. Some of
the comments we've heard: "He's huge!", "Oh my God!",
"He's Gorgeous!", "What a sweetheart!", "Look at that
bone!", "He can't be an Appaloosa, he must be a Warmblood!",
"He's only 3!".

Spotty was injured in early February of 1999
and required surgery. He was totally confined to his stall until November
1999. Although he has now fully recovered, scars kept us from continuing
his show career on the line. He is already over 16.3 hands and is still
growing so we have taken it slow with his under saddle training. The
potential he shows for dressage is unbelievable.

Reprinted from the Horseman's Yankee Pedlar, January, 2001
issue.
Appy Trails, by Geraldine Herman
I've been drooling over Jerry and Virginia Hood's Appaloosa Sport Horses for
years now; studying their stallions in magazines and checking out their sale
horses. I've never seen any of them until this past Equine Affaire in
Springfield, Ma. The Hood's two year old stallion Wap Spot (Waps Applause
X Wap's Confetti) was in Appaloosa breed booth stall. He was everything
the ads promised and then some - actually he was better than I thought he'd
be. Pictures just don't do him justice. Anyhow, if you missed him
you can check him out (and his dad and granddad) at http://www.jgappaloosas.com
or info@jgappaloosas.com. It's a good
thing the Hoods are way down in Pennsylvania or I might be taking Cante for a
visit in the spring (I don't need another horse, I don't need another horse, I
don't...)Note from Virginia - Geraldine, we ship semen!!!